Oracle buys BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Sun Microsoft Systems buys MySQL for about $1.0 billion. Gregory Reyes – Brocade’s ex-CEO – gets 21 months in jail for backdating stock

Another big software company – BEA – is being consumed by Oracle today.  While some people will say this goes back three months to the first offer Oracle made for

My friend Dave sent me a hysterical Onion article titled Failure Now An Option.  I hate the phrase "failure is not an option" – of course it is.  Some choice

We recently made another Foundry Group investment in the Zynga Game Network.  Brad Stone wrote a great article about Zynga in the NYTimes about it titled More Than Games, a

I know – blasphemy in Boulder to say anything negative about CROX.  However, I’m just channeling Howard Lindzon, the founder of WallStrip and stock trader extraordinarre.  I don&

It’s always useful to put failure in perspective.  While Citigroup is likely to announce a $20 billion writedown tomorrow, that’s difficult for most of us to relate to. However, I

Now that I use 267 different social networking tools, I’m confused.  I’ve got so many different "friends", but I don’t know how to differentiate between them. My &quot

Every day I get emails from people working on new startups.  I’m continually amazed at how many of them come from their existing corporate email address.  There are lots of

In my book review of Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes, I said "This is a chewy and long but if you are looking for an exhaustive, comprehensively researched, and completely

Micah’s tweet led me to Phil Hansen, an artist who is a master of playing with his food. Phil’s Goodbye Art series is awesome.  For a taste of what he